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Bruising on my pins?
    #19231349 - 12/05/13 01:50 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

This cake has been in the fruiting chamber for two days, while it seems there has been an increase in the # of pins it also appears there is some bruising on them.

The humidity was at 90% yesterday after I misted quite a bit and tweaked with the setup (taped up some of the holes) but now the hygrometer is reading 80% so I misted it again and put it by the window briefly so it could get some fresh air.

I am considering making a new FC that doesn't have holes in it so that the humidity doesn't get to low.

This is my fruiting chamber, any suggestions on what I should do?




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Re: Bruising on my pins? [Re: collegeboy312]
    #19231362 - 12/05/13 01:52 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Get rid of the hygrometer it is doing you no good.

If the SGFC is built to spec, your humidity if fine no matter what some cheap hygrometer says....

1/4" holes every 2" in a grid pattern on all 6 sides, filled with 4-5" of moist perlite, in a room with no running fans, raised so that air can pass up thru the holes in the bottom and up thru the perlite.

Mist the cakes directly with a fine mist until they glisten, then fan out the chamber to promote evaporation, which is a main pinning trigger.

Mist again once the water you previously applied has evaporated.


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Re: Bruising on my pins? [Re: collegeboy312]
    #19231407 - 12/05/13 02:03 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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collegeboy312 said:
I am considering making a new FC that doesn't have holes in it so that the humidity doesn't get to low.

This is my fruiting chamber, any suggestions on what I should do?






no no no

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Fruiting Chamber
A SGFC has 1/4" holes spaces 2 inches apart in a grid patten on all six sides. 4-6 inches of moist perlite. No attachments made to it with any extra things like humidifiers. Optimally the SGFC should be in the middle of a room. No fans should be run in the room with the SGFC, but a cracked window is OK. A humidifier in your house can help to raise the ambient RH but don't put it near your SGFC put it in the other corner of the room if you do decide to run a humidifier at all. The SGFC IMO should have at least 6-12 inches of room from any wall on all 6 sides. This includes finding some sort of raisers to elevate the SGFC off of the surface it's on.
This is what can happen if you make your SGFC the right way.
Here's what will happen if you do it the wrong way. You'll likely rage quit.

Misting and Fanning.
This is a source of much grief and 100's of posts a week here. Misting and fanning is not at all complicated as it needs to be. In general you'll mist your cakes until they glisten(yes they can even with the verm on them) and then fan right after the mist. You can mist your cakes directly and you should. When you notice the cake is no longer glistening you can mist it again and then fan. This occurs on average of 3-5 times a day. Don't worry about sleeping or being gone 12 hours. Just do it when you're around and don't forget about it is all. Fanning is not FAE it's only purpose is to relive the high RH air so that the cakes can get a kickstart on evaporation.

FAE
This is a phenomenon (Fresh air exchange) in a properly built SGFC this is constantly happening. The perlite is naturally cooler than the surrounding air this moves molecules closer to eachother as the lose kinetic energy. This creates low pressure which pulls air up through the bottom holes. As the air moves through the perlite it picks up humidity and keeps the chamber at or above 90%RH. This occurs naturally without the fanning and is why we like to have no fans in the room and is also why fanning after misting is not a replacement for FAE.

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Fanning is not a replacement for constant FAE.

You would need to fan several times per hour.



:whathesaid:




read this

your theories about how humidity works are bunk. no holes with perlite in the bottom is going to have way lower humidity then having it with holes in all six sides.


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Re: Bruising on my pins? [Re: collegeboy312]
    #19231436 - 12/05/13 02:13 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I don't have a drill and I only have one cake so I don't really want to make the SGFC.

What if I use the 2 liter method or one of the other single fruiting chamber I've researched that don't use holes??

Here are my pins



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Re: Bruising on my pins? [Re: collegeboy312]
    #19231453 - 12/05/13 02:19 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

:awenuhuh: only bruising/bluing i see is on your finger :lol:


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